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REFORM III EXPEDITIONS

1t is said the commission appointed by
the State of New York to inquire into and
report upon the best and least revolving
method OF executing criminals, will soon
file its recommendation that hanging be
abolished and that executions 10y electricity
shall be substituted. There can be no
question about the correctness of this
Judgment. Hanging is a shockingly blum
dering way of executing the condemned.
Its effect upon beholders is demoralizing,
and upon readers of accounts of hangines
Is scarcely less so. But it is not enough to
reform in the method of executing; the
progress proposed should not stop short OF
making executions private, or of prohibit
ing publications of extended and sensa-
tional accounts of them. The purpose
should be to invest the extreme penalty of
the law with dread, and extreme privacy
will contribute to that result Publicity,
however: the opportunity TO nose before
crowd the ceremonial of preparation, and
the longSustained nervous excitement due
to sensational accounts preceding the exc
cution, all tend to deaden public sensibility
and to create a morbid teste. The true
method would be to sequester the con-
denued almost entirely; 10 cut off all
communication between him and the
world, without depriving him of counsel,
the ministrations of the church or the Wis
itations OF his family. The period be-
tween final condemnation and execution
should be brief, and when the end comes il
should neither be heralded nor made a
spectacle, nor the subject Of sensational
ism. The executions in each State should
be carried out at one place only, and only
in The presence of jury named by proper
authority, and no other publication of them
ought to be permitted than the bare fact
that the laws penalty was duly visited
upon the condemned By some such sys-
TEN executions will be invested with the
dread and awfulness that should attach to
them, be deprived OF their present barba-
rous character, and criminals be no longer
able to make the scaffold the platform
upon which to pose with tragic CT
feet. 1t would be going too far to adopt
the French system under which neither
the condemned nor his friends know the
day or hour when the last act in the drama
is to take place, but we might well adopt
the French rule that the criminals body
shall not be delivered to his friends. over
which to enact dramatic scenes, as was
done in Chicago recently. We should at
least so to the extent of making the exc
cution less public, and the act of taking
the criminals life less stimulative Of de-
PRAYED tastes. As it is hanging in this
country, often by unskilled executioners.
is treated in such 4 manner as to shock the
community and famiIiarize the public with
it, and thus largely deprive it of its deter
rent quality.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

ONE of the gratifying reflections of the
holiday season is that the year 1887 has
been good business year here in Sacra-
mento, i'll the State, in the nation. There
have been no financial commissions, no
great business reverseS, no retrogression.
Mercantile matters have not been so ac-
tive as in some years, but their conserva-
tive character has testified to stability; to
forward march. There had been indeed
nothing whatever to discourage the sound
business man, until the tariff thinkers led
by President Cleveland, projected their
theories into the field of present debate.
Under the menace of upsetting the tariff
there is now something more than the ex-
ercise of caution in commercial circles, and
investment and enterprise have been
checked sensibly. Beneath the present
caution, however, there is faith that there
will not he any serious disturbance of the
tariff. The peoples representatives in
Congress are too well advised Of the senti-
ment that tavors going slow" to venture
upon any radical changes at this time
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THE Turk has reason indeed 10 be
alarmed at Russia's war preparations. As
the st. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times put it. eff these prepare
tons are for war, they are ill-disguised !; il
for peace, ill-devised" The Sultan knows
perfectly well that the Gar has his ambi.
tions centered upon seat in Constantine.
pie, and that any movement of his great
neighbor has the Rosporus as its objective
point. The demand now made by Russia
upon Turkey for the payment of the in.
demnity arrearages, amounting to s., $780,.
eco, coupled with the threat to take
pledges in Asia Minor if the delinquency
is not Forthcoming, is made with the ex.
pectation of non-payment, and the pledge
taking stratagem viii thus be made to
cover movement Of troops intended to be
permanent. Under the circumstances, the
reported alarm of the Sultan may well be
believed
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

the domestic surroundings have a great
deal to do with mans stea1fastness and
integrity in business. The ties of happy
home are the anchors of his soul, and the
shield from behind which he can battle
with any foes the world can pit against
him. This, as rule; but the bankers
statement which we quote is harsh and I'M
just. For it is true that men with the
happiest homes, with the tenderest love to
stimulate, and gentlest solicitude for their
well being to sustain them, are every day
found lacking that moral balance essential
to honesty, and too weak to resist tempta-
tion or speak the hardest of words, mo"
In fact, defalcations and thefts are fire.
| quently noted where the dishonesty was
| practiced solely that the criminal might
| surround the loved ones of his home with
| greater comforts. So, too, there are thou
sands of men whose homes are unhappy,
who are made miserable every hour of
their lives by jealousy, suspicion, distrust,
complaining and unhelpfulness at home,
who are as true to trusts imposed as is the
law of gravitation in its operations OF
course he who is happy in his home life,
who finds there all the wants of his affec-
tions satisfied, who loves home above all
other places and things on earth, is the
safer man. But to say that he whose at
fections are starved at home should not
therefore be trusted in business life, is 20
breathe philosophy so stern that it would
close the doors of hope, and c,ndemn some
whose integrity is founded upon the rock
of moral conviction, and whose honesty is
made the more invulnerable by the assaults
OF temptation.
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ro-DAY,s LEADING NEWS TOPICS.

The late ex-Secretary Manning funeral takes
place to-day at Albany, n. y.
General Algers will this year increase his mu-
nificent gifts to the Detroit poor.
Another sad Christmas tragedy is reported
from Virginia.
The Reading railroad strike is creating q
great stir in Pennsylvania labor circles.
Gladstone departed from his home in England
yesterday for Italy.
The condition Of the Crown Princes throat Is
said to be steadily improving.
Work is about to be commenced on the South.
srn Pacifc's new branch line in the San Joaquin
valley.
The Placer county exhibit in Los Angeles CON
tinues to excite admiration.
Tomorrow will be the last day of the Orc
vile Citrus Fair
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REPUBLICAN CLUB ORGANIZATION

Republican clubs are forming I" all OVER
New York and Ohio, and profound enthusi-
asm is manifest. 1t is the result of the
recent National Club Convention, over
which Senator Evarts presided and sim
liar effects should be manifested in other
States. The political club formed now,
before nominations are made, is likely to
be an organization of stability, and vastly
more useful and forceful than the ephem-
eral affairs " whooped up" in the midst of
heated campaign. The Republican Club
formed now, can become an educator of
public thought; it ,can do great good in
the field of debate, and cultivate good citi-
zenship by making men more intelligent
upon political questions. The Commercial
Gazette of Cincinnati, puts it thus:
1t Is most desirable that the work of orgauizs-
ton should go on. The Republicans have much
TO contend against. The administration has
under the civil service reform rules, become
great machine. The changes proposed in the
Cabinet show that the President has become
Massachusetts and New York elections the last
shreds OF the dTapery of the Mugwump rag
baby have been scattered. The doll that has
been the subject of so much idolatory is a
naked deformity. The Democratic party has
the Solid South and the army of office-holders,
and they will use every advantage within their
grasp without a scruple. The Republicans have
a great battle TO fight and it is essential that
they shall organize.
So it is, and why not in California now I?
Why not form clubs under the National
League rules this winter and thus put the
Republicans of California at once into di-
rect organized relations with the great
National club formation of the East? If
they want intelligence in politics and sue
cess in the coming campaign, the Republi-
cans should organize these clubs for
keeps" not merely for a season; clubs
that will be forums for debate and ex-
change of views; that will learn to know
and place the party forces, and through
which the inactive and stay-at-home men,
bers of the party can be reached and
brought into active service 1t is safe to
say that Republican defeat is as often
chargable to lack of organization, and in
activity of members who can be made
workers in the forefront, as for any other
reason. The Republican party in Cali
fornia, by club organization as one means,
can be put into the hands of the members
of the party, and not left to the few to
manage That is what the new movement
means in the East and it ought to have the
same meaning hera Tho ,,srtv cbnrIJ bo
made to organize into tens and fifties, and
hundreds, with responsible officers over
each and thorough understanding and
communication between the groups, and
the National League, Thus every mem
Der could be reached and brought out into
the open and made to do mans part for
the party that is representative of the best
there is in free government.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

THE Inter-Oceon nor any other journal
ever put more trenchant truth and wisdom
into fewer words than has that paper in
these lines on treating of the Anarchist
funerals in Chicago: "One-half the time
and one-fourth the money spent at and in
the beer-guzzling councils and sessions
of secret leagues that plot the impossible
task of making an alien minority domi-
nant over native and naturalized major
ity, would, if saved and well applied, make
each and every Anarchist and Socialist a
prosperous and contented house owner
This plain lesson is striking itself in OF
many whose dollars and hours have beer
spent in admiration of crazy Missionaries
and designing mendicant agitators"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

A LAD in Philadelphia who smoked
from fifteen to twenty cigarettes day re-
Gently died from nicotine poisoning. These
cigarette deaths are becoming very fire.
quent; and it is no wonder, for the habit
Of smoking the paper tube is increasing
frightfully. If the evil grows as rapidly
in the next year as in the last, the propo-
sition made by a physician in the Epoch
to erect statutes forbidding the manufact-
ure and sale of cigarettes, may be realized
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nal of the South admits that the political
parties there are divided on race lines,
there ought to be no more denial of the
fact. Precisely what that means no one
need be in doubt. 1t means that the
freedman is to be political freeman if he
votes the Democratic ticket, but to be a
political martyr and outlaw if he chooses
to exercise his sovereign right and affiliate
politically with white men who are not
Democrats.
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A business man of New York city, who
suffered by lis paying -tcller's default, the
Other DAY said Had l known he had
not a happy hone would net have kept
him as paYing-teiier l would not have
anv man Ia such capacity who did not
H. -~- at hone" PROFESSIONALLY
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places :
a. T. Fisher, Room q. Merchants Exchange
Francisco; Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands Market-street Ferry and junction Of
Market and Montgomery street News Stands
80 Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming iato Sacramento.
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SALT RHEUM often appears in cold
weather, attacking the palms of the hands
and other parts of the body. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, the great blood purifier, cures salt
rheum Try it.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
{" How to Woo Dame Fortune and How
to Keep Herr

CAPTAIN CHARLES GOODALL (OF GOOD
" all, Perkins & Co, San Francisco,) will
lecture to young men as above on TUESDAY
EVENING, December 18th, at 8 O'Clock in
Young Mems Christian Association Hall. Sixth
street. d2i-3t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

IT has been reserved for Mr.. Edward
Dickinson to point out new objections to
the Presidents tariff policy. He recites
that free trade in England is really pro-
lection to her manufacturers, because she
fears no competition in her home market.
She is constantly reaching out for markets
for her manufactures. In the case of
America we must first reserve to them our
own market 1t has been the policy of the
United States to raise revenue from i'm
ports and to discriminate in order to foster
our industries. Mr. Dickinson then pro-
ceeds to recall the period when, under the
bill of Henry Clay, tariff reduction was
planned for series of ten years of grad
ual withdrawal. AS the discriminating
duties fell off cotton and iron mills closed
and the workers were thrown out of en-
ployment. British goods came in so rap
idly and in such bulk that our gold and
silver was drained from us, and "shin-
plasters" issued by business houses became
the currency. Mr.. Dickenson-who, by
the way, is a Democrat-adds: In the
town of Paterson, \. J., where / as boy
was living, all the skilled operatives were
thrown out of work and were compelled to
beg from door to door for bread and SINH
lar scenes could be witnessed throughout
the country"
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For frankness, and in REPUTATION of the
charge that the Republican press misrep-
resents political conditions at the South,
we commend to doubling readers the fol-
lowing from the Vicksb,;rg, Miss, CONNER
eidl Herald,
10 negro. no matter whether he claims to be
a Democrat or not, should be permitted to take
part, Tor IN the South the pa ties are divided on
race lines. II some negroes are permitted to
AID ID controlling the democratic party, it will
not be long before some shrewd scoundrels by
the aid of negroes, will control ii or disrupt it
Let It be continued as 3 white organization and
Il concessions are 70 be made to the negroes let
them be made to them alone, and not to white
leaders of negroes.
Since, then. leading Democratic jour
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CITY PROPERTY.

CITY PROPERTY.
S4O0-IOt 40x16O, Y and w, Twenty
fifth and Twenty-sixth.
We can sell you quarter of block of
land inside the city limits for $500;
good place to raise garden truck
and chickens, or keep small dairy.
A new Groom house, hard finished,
high lot, on Sixth street, between z
and 0; will be sold very cheap il
called for soon; title perfect.
81, 1904 neat new house, hard fin
ished, lot S0x160; one block from
main entrance to East Park.
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A. o. u. Sacramento Lodge No. So
will receive visit from 6ON. Z. F. LOUD
THIS Tuesday, EVENING, at 7:30 oclock at
Changers Hall Let every member be present
Visiting members cordially welcomed
d27 lts GEO. B. KATZtNSTEIN, Recorder
STRAYED-TO THE RESIDENCE OF n
- FRAZIER, 917 Twentieth street, between !
and J, a BROWN MARE, hitched to a top buggy.
Owner will please call, prove property and pay
charges. d27-lt*
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A FAIR ballot for the colorcd people of the
South, and fair wages for American labor,
should be the watchwords of the Republican
party. We can win on these issues-Neo York
Press.
Yes and the party can afford to lose on
those issues. But fair ballot everywhere
for white and black, North and South, East
and West, and fair wages for labor every
where, always have been the watch-words
of the Republican party. No new declara-
tions are necessary on these heads.
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also Inform our old anS new patrons of
he arrival of our immense stock of
ChoTHIN@
Boots and Shoes

AT THE LOWEST RATES. Look at Price List.
Gents Heavy Kip Brogsns 90
Gents extra heavy Kip Buckle Brogans
(gozd 50
9ents buH Balmorals Is
Gents Sewed shoes, in Lace, Cater and
Congress 50
Gents landard Screwed Buff Button Shoes l 10
Gents fine Hand-se Sed, in lace, button or
Congress, sold all over this coast at IS,
only 90
Gents Fine Calf Band sewed Shoe Qsceo or
Congress- so
Fine Calf Boots... ..-.........-.s2 25 and upward
Gents Heavy Work Boots....S2 25 and upward
Boys school and upward
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GENERAL NOTICES,

at needs" as Hamlet says, "no ghost
To come and tell'' this truth:
Pure S0ZODONT preserves the teeth,
In age, in manhood, youth.
If any substitute is offered
For this reject it when tbs proffered. TT:
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/. MARKS, the Proprietor,

Hs concluded to make Handsome Present
tSevery person PURCHASING from TEN to
at his Store, ommencing with TO-DAY and
lasting until after the HOLIDAYS. The;
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New YORK is shaned by the action of
the authorities of Alfred Centre. They
have prosecuted and imprisoned woman
who demanded the right to cast ballot
at local election, and whom the election
officers permitted to vote. One of the bad
features of the case is the fact that the
women of the town who voted with
her agreed to stand their share of the ex-
penses of her defense and appeal, but
womanlike, they ran at the first fire and
left one of their own to do battle alone
Had it been Z man in trouble for them
they would have rallied to the last one in
in his aid, and have showered money
tears, flowers and sympathy upon him
in his cell. But one of their own sex
whom they urged to the front, they leave
to get out the best she can. Indeed, il
sometimes seems that the lower, vile and
more abhorrent is the male criminal the
more female sympathy and favor i.
manifested in his behalf. Mrs. Barber
has, therefore, resolved to suffer her i'm
prisonment and take no appeal. But
when she is set free, if she is woman O.
any spirit. she will make it shot" fol
those of her sex who proved their ingrati
tude. 1t was poor, pitiful piece of bust
ness on the part Of men to prosecute Mrs
Barber, and insist upon her occupying 6
dungeon cell. She voted with score o.
| other women, under the advice of law.
yer, and her ballot was received by the
election officers. Surely this was not such
ali oaense that it was needful to go beyond
conviction. In her case sentence might
well have been indefinitely suspended.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27

1 have not used ali of one bottle yet.
suffered from catarrh FOR twelve years expert.
encing the nauseating dropping in the throat
peculiar to that disease, and nose-bl-ed almost
daily. tried various remedies without benefit
until last April, when l saw ELY'S CREAM
BALM advertised in the Boston Budget
procured bottle, and since the first days use
have had no more bleeding-the soreness is en-.
tirely gone-D. G. avidson. with the Boston
Budget" formerly with Boston Journal" 1y
The best place in California have yOr printing done.
A. Johnston & Cos. 80 ST, Sacramento, Cal
III you want a Number One Carpet
woven on short notice, send it 10 MARY s. COW.
GER, 500 NJ street. tt
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WANTED.
REAL ESTATE, ETC.
SOME
CHEAP INVESTMENTS

UHEAF INYEOI MENlN
COUNTRY PROPERTY.
So Per Acre-160 acres land, cabin,
corral, chicken houses; living water
all the year; county road runs
through the place; the soil is rich,
adapted to either fruit or grain; one.
quarter mile from schOOl-hOuse and
pOstOfiice; enough fine timber stand
ing to more than dOubly pay for the
place, and can be sold standing.
50 % Per Acre-32O acres timber
land; good soil; fine timber.
100 acres land for $3.50.
All above land is within two days.
drive of Sacramento. Why talk
about land being too high when you
can get such bargains as above.
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W.P.COLEMAN
325 j STREET.
e a q MI -
FOR SALE.

$2.5O0-1OO Acres, one-quarter mile
from Railroad Station; three miles
from Latrobe, Ell Dorado county {:
small house and barn; chicken
house wagon shed; good well of
water; all fenced; 40 acres cleared;
several living springs. A bargain. 43l
$3,5OO-SO Acres, with good dwell
ing of rooms, barn and wagon
shed; Is miles from city on Pleas
ant Grove Road. 427.
$3.50 Per Acre-255 acres, three
miles from the city small orchard,
good house, two barns will be sold
in SO-acre tracts fine fruit land. 421
$3.50 Per Acre-5O Acres four miles
from the city, on Lower Stockton
Road; good dwelling and barn !;
small orchard and vineyard; three
windmills, four wells; all fenced.
$40 so Per Acre-72O acres, well
improved and located; rich soil Alb
$50 Per Acre-24O Acres, near the
city; good tract to subdivide. 405.
$3.50 Per Acre-6O Acres, two miles
from the city. This can be SUBJ
divided nicely. s.
ST. Per Acre-25O Acres. two miles
from Folsom. 346.
$40 Per Acre-4O Acres, near Florin
some improvements. 406
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a. JUST RECEIVED, A FINE LOT OF
FANCY NECKWEAR FOR THE HOII-
DAYS FROM 25 CENTS UPWARD.
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P4ESENTS

VIII consist as follows Persons Purchasing
TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS will
have his choice of a FINE BOX OF CIGARS
or SILK HANDKERCHIEF, or FINE
GENTS SCARF PIN. Persons Purchasing
from FIFTEEN To TWENTY DOLLARS
WORTH will reeeive a FINE CLOCK.
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HATS.

AA&s.
Gents Hats, from cents upward
Gents Fine Beaver Hats, from.sl Is upward
a tine line OF Boys Hats, from...15 cents upward
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Placer County Land Office,
1927 Street, Sacramento, Cal.

HOUSES RENTED, RENTS COLLECTED,
III loans negotiated. Placer and Nevada
county Orchard and Vineyard Lands speciality.
Farms in Sacramento FL Dorado and other
counties. Fine fruit lands at Colfax, New Eng
land Mills, Apologize, Auburn, Newcastle and
Lincoln. Right at C. p. K. r. stations, IN large
or small tracts to suit purchaser; SIS per acre
and upward. Office, Sacramento Bank
Building.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

s. 8. r e. L. southworth. Dentists. 8.